Product Director

Description:

- Nature of role: Full time.

- Number of years of experience expected: 8+ years.

- Areas of past experience preferred: Product Manager, Risk management, Product implementation.

- Credit risk product implementation, accounting product implementation, user acceptance testing, BRD and FSD documentation, Requirement gathering, regulatory knowledge, accounting standard knowledge.

- Educational qualification expected: Chartered Accountant / ACCA / Postgraduate / or masters.

- Additional qualifications/ certifications required: Project management, programming language.

- Preferable additional certifications: Financial Risk Management/ IFRS Diploma / CFA / CQF.

- Preferred geography of previous work experience: India / Europe / APAC / US.

- Language requirements: Ability to write and speak fluently in English.

- Travel is dependent on nature and location of projects as well as the role of specific people on the project. Accordingly, travel requirements may change from time to time.

- Acies is a global organization with clients and business interests across geographies. Travel for both short and long-term is expected for most roles.

Specific requirements of travel for this role are as follows:

We are seeking an experienced professional to join our team as a Tech Implementation Specialist. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the implementation of complex financial software solutions, with a focus on IFRS 9, IFRS 16, credit risk management, and financial modelling. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring seamless integration, compliance, and optimal functionality of the software within the organization.

Key responsibility areas:

- Preparing and updating the BRD based on the product features, implementation roadmap and client requirements.

- Identifying the client data sources and mapping product data structures to ensure capture of all relevant data-sets for computation.

- Playing key role in project planning for system implementation which includes developing detailed plans, identifying risks and developing mitigation strategies, stakeholder co-ordination.

- Explain and lead client conversation on the features of the product and explain how the business requirements are met.

- Perform the master data and rules configuration of the system to meet specific business requirements.

- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements for IFRS 9, IFRS 16, credit risk, and financial modeling.

- Prepare and maintain detailed test cases repository for the application.

- Conduct training sessions for end-users on the use of the Application and provide comprehensive documentation for ongoing reference.

- Be proactive and provide post go-live support to the client.

- Identify areas of process improvement and optimization within the implementation process.

- Work closely with the internal teams to ensure readiness for new product rollout.

- Manage client issues during a project and ensure swift resolution.

- Focus on total client relationship and servicing a broad range of client needs, manage provision of end-to-end delivery of solution to existing and new clients.

- Communicate project updates to stakeholders and generate regular status reports for management to highlight processes, challenges, and key milestones.

Key performance metrics:

- Adherence to the firms standards for processes and quality.

- Project profitability.

- Generation of business from existing clients.

- Collection targets for the product implementations.

- Client feedback.

- Feedback from counselor and other team members.